Full-Time Faculty
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Email: merricka@usc.edu
Research Areas: History of Western Philosophy, Value Theory
Professor of Philosophy
Email: abacon@usc.edu
Research Areas: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Email: lchen805@usc.edu
Research Areas: Philosophy of Mathematical Physics, Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Email: sam.clarke@usc.edu
Research Areas: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Email: zlatan@usc.edu
Research Areas: Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Email: chdietz@usc.edu
Research Areas: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Disability
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Email: dmitriga@usc.edu
Research Areas: Philosophy of Probability and Rational Choice Theory, Formal Epistemology, Metaphysics of Causation and Chance
Provost Professor of Philosophy
Linda MacDonald Hilf Chair in Philosophy
Email: jhawthor@usc.edu
Research Areas: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Religion, Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Law
Professor of Philosophy
Email: jeshion@usc.edu
Research Areas: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Early Analytic Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Email: kleinsch@usc.edu
Research Areas: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion
Professor of Philosophy and Law
Email: lloyd@usc.edu
Research Areas: Political Philosophy, History of Political Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy and English
Email: mccann@usc.edu
Research Areas: Early Modern Philosophy, Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Mind
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Email: jmonagha@usc.edu
Research Areas: Moral and Political Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy and Law
Email: quong@usc.edu
Research Areas: Moral and Political Philosophy
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Email: jacobmro@usc.edu
Research Areas: Ethics, Metaethics, Epistemology, Practical Reason
Professor of Philosophy
Email: jeff.russell@usc.edu
Research Areas: Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Decision Theory, Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Religion
Professor of Philosophy
Email: maschroe@usc.edu
Research Areas: Metaethics, Practical Reason, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Personhood and the Self, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action, Agency, and Responsibility, Legal Philosophy, History of Ethics
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Email: soames@usc.edu
Research Areas: Philosophy of Language, History of Analytic Philosophy
University Professor, Professor of Philosophy, History, and Accounting
Email: soll@usc.edu
Research Areas: History of Information and Knowledge, Political History, Economic History, History of Books and Libraries, Accounting, History of Political and Financial Transparency, the Renaissance and Enlightenments
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Email: tahzib@usc.edu
Research Areas: Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Email: etilton@usc.edu
Research Areas: Feminist Philosophy, Epistemology
Professor of Philosophy
Email: uzquiano@usc.edu
Research Areas: Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language
Professor of Philosophy
Email: vancleve@usc.edu
Research Areas: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Early Modern Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy
Email: wedgwood@usc.edu
Research Areas: Metaethics, Epistemology, Rational Choice, Ethical Theory, History of Ethics
Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Linguistics
Email: wellwood@usc.edu
Research Areas: Semantics, Philosophy of Language and Mind, Experimental Semantics
Adjunct, Joint Appointment, and Visiting Faculty
Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy
Email: dalberts@usc.edu
Research Areas: Medieval and Early Modern Christianity, Christian Mysticism, Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, Religion and Visual Culture, Philosophy of Religion
Associate Professor of Art History and Philosophy
Email: scberger@usc.edu
Research Areas: Visual Art and Intellectual History in Early Modern Europe (ca. 1500–1800)
University Professor, Professor of Psychology, Philosophy and Neurology, and David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience
Email: damasio@usc.edu
Research Areas: Neurobiology of Emotion, Decision-Making, and Consciousness
Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy
Email: fjimenez@law.usc.edu
Research Areas: Legal Philosophy, Private Law Theory, Contract Theory
William T. Dalessi Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
Email: gkeating@law.usc.edu
Research Areas: Product Liability, Tort and Accident Law, Legal Reasoning, Legal Rationality and the Rule of Law, Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, Philosophy of Law
Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy
Email: emiller@law.usc.edu
Research Areas: Theories of Speech and Free Speech Rights, Media, Moral and Criminal Responsibility
Professor of Psychology and Philosophy
Email: hmoll@usc.edu
Research Areas: Developmental Psychology, Social Cognition in Infancy and Early Childhood, Human Development, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Education, Philosophical Anthropology
Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy
Email: jnam@law.usc.edu
Research Areas: Legal Philosophy, Taxation, Applied Ethics
Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy
Email: mprieto@law.usc.edu
Research Areas: International Law, International Laws of Armed Conflict, Comparative Constitutional Law, Political, Moral, and Legal Philosophy
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy
Email: drudin@usc.edu
Research Areas: Semantics, Pragmatics
Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy
Email: schein@usc.edu
Research Areas: Semantics, Philosophy of Language
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Email: evillanu@usc.edu
Research Areas: Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic
Postdoctoral Scholars
Postdoctoral Scholar – Research Associate
Email: koschel@usc.edu
Research Areas: History of Philosophy, Kant, Hegel, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science
Emeriti Faculty
University Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Law
Research Areas: Moral, Legal, and Political Philosophy, Aesthetics
Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Email: dreher@usc.edu
Research Areas: Early Modern Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, Metaethics
Professor Emerita of Philosophy
Email: levin@usc.edu
Research Areas: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Epistemology
Provost Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Law
Email: glwatson@usc.edu
Research Areas: Philosophy of Action, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Email: gmwilson@usc.edu
Research Areas: Aesthetics (especially Film Aesthetics), Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Language